Throughout recent history, incomprehensible amounts of energy has gone to waste and continues to do so. More than half of the energy that flows through our economy is ultimately wasted through a wide range of inefficient processes. Energy usage in the United States is dominated by commercial & industrial facility power consumption and road transportation. Close to 50% of the energy used for automobile propulsion is wasted via deceleration and braking. Electric vehicles are capable of recovering some of this energy through regenerative braking, which is a good start, but this simply isn't an option for most cars. It is estimated that enough energy is wasted annually in the U.S. - by decelerating vehicles alone - to power 60 million average homes for an entire year.